It seems to me that there is a pretty proven empirical history of the poor doing most of the fighting.

The poor do the fighting for the rich.

How in god's name are what I've said and what you've said mutually exclusive?

You've become a reddit armchair expert. Your third year history course or careful recollection of a made-for-TV documentary has caused you to perceive a disagreement that is not there, and lecture because it makes you feel intelligent (which you may well be, but you're not exactly giving me that impression with your "rebuttal"). It is probably time to close that account and take a break before you really enter the stupid-zone, because you're close at the moment.

Tomb Raider gets a 9 from unestablished gaming site in desperate need of graphic redesign comprised of people recycled from also-ran website 1up that has somehow become defacto official reviewer of r/games. *

If someone was going to travel back in time and cause one game to never exist, I would build my own time machine to kill their parents with if they picked Metroid Prime (which I played through once or twice, the first playthrough being about 17 hours long and being positively life enriching), but I probably wouldn't even blink if they went back in time and caused World of Warcraft to vanish.

Every fucking reddit post is about another reddit post these days. Even this one. Just stop with this bullshit.

If you upvoted this, or any of that other dumb shit, shame on you. Stop. If content on this site is about content on this site, downvote the shit out of it and the front page will have only neat stuff on it instead of this bullshit.

(If you want to use "FM,R?" correctly, you need to make a good counterpoint or be addressing a vague or tenuous statement. If I tell you that your viewership adds to the ratings of the stupidest comedy in television history, and that I hate you, it does not work as intended.)

If you have to ask this, then you are very likely part of what has gone wrong with reddit in the last four years.

I will tell you, though, since I don't want to also be part of what is wrong with reddit.

This is not my first account ever. If that wasn't immediately obvious to you, then I have to wonder a bit, and if you thought you were doing 'sleuthy detective work,' then let me suggest that you'd benefit from an account reset and some time away from reddit yourself, but I will give you the benefit of the doubt.

There are a few reasons I do this. Chiefly, it is to avoid the temptation to karma whore (when I say "I don't give a shit about karma," I can say it honestly). Second, it would be awfully hypocritical of me to suggest that "reddit personalities" and novelty accounts have ruined the site if I was in the game myself. It also makes me spend less time on the site, which can be a huge time suck.

edit: And I should be clear about this, by the above I don't mean that you're dumb, or you're doing something wrong. We've evolved this idiotic user culture now where there is drama between anonymous people over the internet, you can be banned from subreddits you've never been to, and there are whole subreddits devoted to reddit. That was never the point. The point was to get cool information about real things, and now it's gotten to the point where most of the content on reddit is about the content on reddit. That's why you are skeptical that I'm not just karma farming, and that's why reddit has gone to hell in a handbasket.

I'm of the opinion that these basically destroyed the game and instead of being a game about control over space and strategic execution, it turned into Unreal Tournament: Lite (that is to say, not as good as UT, which was excellent).

In the very early days, it was mostly a place for IT professionals to talk shop.

As time went on, it grew more popular, and the subjects of interest expanded. Soon there were hilarious subreddits devoted to bizarre comics, and atheism (how novel!), and funny animal memes. You know how those have turned out since, but yes, there really was a time when novelty accounts were novel, when reddit didn't have its own little geeky sub-language, and when all the people who make the world a dumber place on r/circlejerk were still playing with their pokemon cards, or whatever they used to do.

Basically, the largest change I can think of in reddit over the past several years is that this was, at one point, a link aggregator and forum, and now it's an image board with scorekeeping.